Sunday, June 8, 2014

Are your emails safe, Andrew?

Are your emails safe, Andrew?

Last week, thousands of Take Action members joined us and many other
groups in pressing for real surveillance reform in the USA FREEDOM Act.
But whether or not Congress pulls through, there are things you should
know about keeping your emails safe and secure.

An email actually goes through a lot of steps between when you hit
"Send" and when it lands in the recipient's inbox. Your message is
secure only if both the sender's and recipient's email providers encrypt
them in transit. We've put together a page that details how this kind
of encryption works, and which email providers support it.

Take a look, and see how your provider, and those of your friends, performs.

Gmail has supported encryption in transit since 2010. But 50% of the
email sent from other providers to Gmail users and 35% of the email sent
from Gmail users to other providers is not encrypted in transit.
That's why we're working to make end-to-end email encryption more
accessible to every user, regardless of their email provider.

A big part of making everyone's email safer is educating
your friends about why it's important. Do your part by spreading the
word today: